Red Politician in Blue State Turns Green
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 01. 7.07
If one needed any more proof that environmental issues are going mainstream in America as well as Canada and the UK, look at Arnold's inauguration- it was carbon neutral. Electricity was supplied by a generator powered by "bovine biogas"- methane extracted from manure, a second generator powered by soybean oil biodiesel, and a 3 kilowatt solar array. Offsets were purchased from a local forest for the balance. Along with his California Solar Initiative, this is a demonstration of "how a red politician in a blue state could win a landslide re-election by turning green."::Green Wombat
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